Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did(www.theverge.com)
39 pointsby eternalreturn4 hours ago6 comments
  • anaisbetts2 hours ago
    Welp, the biggest reason that I use Edge just got thrown out, time to switch to Firefox.
  • an hour ago
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  • poulpy1232 hours ago
    I honestly don't know how people do without ad blockers. Even with being ok with ads, they are so overwhelming that I could not use internet without blocking them
    • massysett32 minutes ago
      I don’t use adblockers. If a site has too many ads to be usable, I don’t visit it.
      • WhyIsItAlwaysHN22 minutes ago
        So no youtube?
        • NeutralWanted6 minutes ago
          YouTube premium is one of the best subs you can buy if you watch a lot of YouTube. Plus you get Music.
        • massysett19 minutes ago
          YouTube is tolerable with ads. If I found it intolerable, I would pay. Or not visit.
          • Ylpertnodi7 minutes ago
            'Rainbow Dome Musick', by Steve Hillagr..glorious soothing music, then 30 mins in, a Barilla pasta advert. Sorry, youtube - I tried.
    • jmclnx30 minutes ago
      I use noscript instead of an ad blocker. I find it blocks the intrusive ads. I do not mind what I view as normal ads (ie: text or link), but these video and popup ads drive me crazy. I find noscript blocks the "bad" ads.
    • cake-rusk2 hours ago
      Most laypeople I know haven't seen an ad blocker in action ever.
    • squigzan hour ago
      I install Firefox and uBlock on friends/family devices as often as I can.
    • Balinaresan hour ago
      In case your assumption here is that TFA is about Edge disabling adblockers: it's not. It's just removing ManifestV2 support. ManifestV3 is still supported. Despite what one might assume, MV3 does not seem to measurably diminish the effectiveness of adblockers; if anything, it improves it. (Source: https://petsymposium.org/popets/2026/popets-2026-0027.php)
      • LelouBilan hour ago
        Isn't the main issue that for MV3 you can't have a dynamic blocklist ? And so you have to update it with an extension update ?
        • phire15 minutes ago
          There is a dynamic API too that allows extensions to modify the blocklist at runtime.

          I’ve been using UBlock Origin Lite on my iPhone for a while, and that works great, keeping itself updated from EasyList and allowing for custom rules.

          In some ways it’s better, in some ways it’s worse. Sometimes you have to flip it into “complete mode” (and give it full access to modify the current site) to get good blocking.

  • raverbashing4 hours ago
    I guess it still will be the best browser to download Firefox
    • jmclnx29 minutes ago
      Lets hope it stays that way :)

      But if offered enough $, I fear it will join that no-bocker bandwagon.

    • biglyburrito3 hours ago
      It always was.
  • feverzsj2 hours ago
    Basically every chromium based browser.
    • olivermuty2 hours ago
      Brave as well?
      • feverzsjan hour ago
        Brave's adblock isn't as powerful as ublock.
        • antonymoose14 minutes ago
          In what sense? As a normie-tier user of Brave’s internal and blocker, it’s worked great. I never became a power-user of uBlock.
        • zamadatix29 minutes ago
          It doesn't have to be so long as it still supports the above.
  • TiredOfLife25 minutes ago
    It's ending manifest V2, not just adblockers.

    uBlock Origin lite is V3 and is still supported